---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment On 22-mrt-04, at 1:05, Dean May wrote: > They will eventually. > > The Bible is the most authoritative and widely used source book in=20 > human > history. Much more reliable than most of the opinions you seem to=20 > prefer. > > Imagine what society would be like if everyone regulated his life by=20= > the big > Ten and the Golden Rule. > > Dean > > Dean May cell 812.239.3359 > PianoRebuilders.com 812.235.5272 > Terre Haute IN 47802 The Bible is a book, written by religious people for religious people,=20= people who believe in a deity and a heaven and a hell or what ever. These same religious people also believe that non-believers should be,=20= no, must be, converted otherwise they, the non-believers, go to hell. A religious experience, a mystical experience, is a very personal and=20 private matter. It is understandable that somebody who has had a deeply=20= religious or deeply mystical experience very much wants to share his or=20= her exaltation. Unfortunately, the people who are so deeply religious, do not want to=20 get it through their religious skulls that there is a vast group of=20 other inhabitants of this planet who can not , do not, and shall not=20 share the same religious or mystical experience. (Maybe so called=20 non-believers will have there own mystical moment in time, but that is=20= another matter) These same religious people are not dumb or stupid, so they do=20 understand that there are others with a different opinion, but the=20 irritating truth often is that they do not want to let others have a=20 free and un-hindered life, a life in which they can have their own=20 experiences and and there own developments, without the egotistical=20 wish from believers to proselytize and forcefully convert innocent=20 beings. Again I say, read our history books and you will come to the conclusion=20= that most wars were fought because of religious intolerance. Look at the Roman games where the early Christians were murdered by=20 Romans who did not share their vision, look at the endless torture and=20= prosecution of the inquisition in the middle ages, the invasion of the=20= moors in Spain, the crusades into the 'holy land', the endless wars=20 between the protestants and the catholics, the hateful murders=20 committed by totally INtolerant muslims who want to just erase every=20 non-muslim. I live in a so called tolerant country and I wish to be tolerant. I am=20= tolerant towards all kinds of political movements, to all kinds of=20 religious groups. All I want is peace and happiness for my fellow=20 humans, and all I expect is the same tolerance towards the fact that I=20= may be of a different opinion. So please, do not choose this email forum as your religious platform=20 and try to understand that your personal religious experience should be=20= shared not on this list but among your own co-believers, just out of=20 respect for people who might think otherwise. Thank you for your tolerance, OK? Andr=E9 Oorebeek Amsterdam - The Netherlands 0031-20-6237357 0645-492389 0031-75-6226878 www.concertpianoservice.nl www.grandpiano.nl "where music is, no harm can be" ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: text/enriched Size: 3195 bytes Desc: not available Url : https://www.moypiano.com/ptg/pianotech.php/attachments/7b/f1/a1/8f/attachment.bin ---------------------- multipart/alternative attachment--
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